Hence, assuming the strongest version of transcendental idealism, every such principle tells us how one of the categories partially constitutes objects of experience in general, by determining an objectively real phenomenal structure across all possible worlds of human experience.
There are just the many bits, and the constituted object of which they are parts.
By contrast, for Kant, the "constitutive" use of our faculties actually helps to constitute the objects of knowledge, by providing their form as objects of possible experience.
But this apparently terminological difference, Schlick thought, masked a far deeper difference separating them since, on Reichenbach's understanding, the apriori constitutes the objects of experience and knowledge whereas, on Schlick's, conventions only constitute concepts, which may be applied to experiences and objects, but do not constitute them.
The phenomenological reduction that constitutes the objects of consciousness as pure meanings or significations devoid of the existential claims that render them liable to skeptical doubt-such a reduction or "bracketing of the being question" carries a moral significance as well.
For Kant had attributed the apriori the far more philosophically significant function of constituting the object of experience or knowledge.
As we ascend to higher levels of abstraction, very general framework assumptions come into play in constituting the object of study.
In the representational sense, knowers constitute the object of knowledge in choosing the terms in which they represent it, and in defining the context in which it is represented as operating.
In the early imminent expectation, the period between death and the coming of the Kingdom still constituted no object of concern.
